and would she be any better than biden/trump/obama? i honestly haven’t paid her any attention.
Tim Pool is a moron. https://youtu.be/c8g7W9zEOXA?si=XVb0Ag6vtattHiRH
hey I got home from work and watch that video and it’s very good. I’m going to subscribe.
RM is great at using absurdity to expose grifters.
If you want to see a great analysis of Tim Pool see Timbah.On.Toast Tim Pool: Fence Sitter
do you know of anyone that’s good at finding action, doing succinct analysis, and also maybe not dwelling on interviews? unicorn riot does the first one well, but id rather just have a media personality delivered the narrative than someone neck deep in the action.
he’s a dummy. i never meant to suggest he isn’t. but he used to be able to at least find real stories i cared about.
Tim “gets his philosophy from Marvel movies” Pool doesn’t know shit about anything.
thanks
I’m wondering if there is a bit of misunderstanding or miscommunication going on here? I don’t know the statement or the context, but my interpretation based on OPs title is that this person is implying …
Registered Democrats will switch their party affiliation so that they can vote for Haley to be the Republican nominee for president.
The implication that enough Democrats will do this that it will affect the outcome is, how shall I put this nicely, wholly unsupported by data or reality. On the other hand, the intellectually dishonest types will actively seek examples of people doing this (or claiming to do it) and use that as “evidence” that it is happening on a wide scale.
The fact that some number of people will switch parties to vote in a primary is inevitable and happens every presidential election cycle and is not a tool used only by members of one party. You might as well predict that someone will get into a car accident in the USA in the next 24 hours.
I have read about individuals doing this, but to my knowledge it has never happened in any sufficient numbers to tilt a primary in any state.
Some states run open primaries, so that any person can vote in any (but only one) primary. Other states run closed primaries, such that any voter who has registered as a member of that party can vote in that particular party’s primary. Yet others (eg, California last time I checked) have mixed modes. I believe the CA GOP primary is closed by the Democratic primary is open.
You can tell relatively easily by the number of votes in any given primary election whether they’re consistent in terms of turnout with previous years. As far as I’ve ever read, they tend to be year over year consistent. The one trend that has been noted in recent years is a small but as far as I know steady increase in independent voters (who as stated may or may not be able to vote in primaries depending on their state, but based on number of votes cast do not seem to have been a deciding factor in primary votes).
I generally have suspected that the idea of people switching parties to act as primary spoilers is largely just projection, as we tend to expect malfeasance of the Other, but the hard truth is that you can barely get large numbers of people to vote in actual elections, much less in something like a primary.
thank you.
Stop listening to Tim Pool, or any of the other right wing grifters.
Pim Tool is a deeply unserious person.
Obama? What? Is that something else some dimwitted right wing grifter said?
obama was the last democrat i voted for for president. i was hoping haley might be better than him.
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. What political positions do you hold?
fuck. I deleted my first reply while trying to edit.
I was a liberal inn 2008, fell for syndicalism for a while and now I lean heavily toward galleanist insurrectionism, though I also like black anarchism.
baby, I’m an anarchist
That’s cool, but why would you consider Nikki Haley? She’s an outright Republican fascist, which is the opposite of that.
as i said, i didn’t actually know anything about her.
I’m an anarchist. I was a liberal in 2008, fell for syndicalism for a long while and now prefer galleanist insurrectionism. I am starting to like black anarchism now, tho.
